Cost Engineer - Chassis

Join the Chassis Cost Engineering team at Star Transmission srl and help shape competitive and sustainable cost decisions for key vehicle components.

Tasks

• Create transparent bottom-up cost calculations for chassis component parts throughout the product lifecycle.
• Analyze requirement specifications, technical drawings, and CAD data to define target costs and identify cost drivers.
• Evaluate manufacturing processes, including aluminum die casting, precision machining, injection molding, and assembly.
• Create target cost structures, validate supplier quotations, and derive technology benchmarks.
• Assess supplier processes, machine concepts, capital expenditure, and cycle times.
• Support procurement in supplier discussions, price negotiations, and strategic sourcing decisions.
• Collaborate with R&D and Engineering on design-to-cost initiatives.
• Propose alternative materials, manufacturing technologies, or design simplifications.
• Prepare technical and commercial decision briefs for management and specialist departments.
• Evaluate supplier compensation requests and conduct manufacturing process analyses covering machining, extrusion, bending, stamping, cutting, welding, coating, and joining.
• Perform competitive analysis of manufacturers including Tesla, BMW, Audi, and BYD.

Qualifications

• Degree in mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, plastics or metal engineering, production engineering, or a comparable qualification.
• Solid technical knowledge of chassis components and related manufacturing processes.
• Experience in cost engineering, manufacturing process analysis, or comparable technical fields.
• Confident handling of technical drawings, process parameters, machine layouts, and investment calculations.
• Strong analytical and commercial mindset with clear communication skills.
• Fluent spoken and written English; German language skills are beneficial.

What You Can Expect

• Technically challenging work with meaningful business impact.
• Influence over cost, technology, and supplier decisions.
• Collaboration with an interdisciplinary team and international supplier and production networks.
• Modern tools and methods in cost engineering.

Benefits

Employee events, mobile phone, possible discounts and health benefits, meal discounts, hybrid work, flextime, mobility offers, annual profit share, coaching, parking, canteen, café, in-house doctor, public transport, and near-site childcare.